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Old 02-13-2009, 08:06 AM
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I went by Thunder Valley Tuesday afternoon and got to help Brad swap the bad roof skin that the blaster messed up. They shrunk and stetched different areas of the roof when blasting and made the surface like a washboard. The skin wasn't as bad to change as what I thought it would be. The front windshield area and the rear window area are spot welded, as well as at the qaurters. The rails above the side windows are wrapped and pinched just like a door skin. So all in all not too bad, the worst part is that the inner skin is glued to the outer every sqaure foot with a big dollop of seam sealer. You need some very long pry bars and a hammer and you can tap the outer loose from each dollop and it comes off, this is the step that takes patience and care so not to damage the inner.





New skin trimmed and in position.







It took about 3 hours to do this with two of us but the welding still needed to be done so figure a couple more hours for that and finishing.
More to come soon.
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